Health Delivery

The changing face of health care requires new, transdisciplinary models of delivery of care. Facing challenges such as skyrocketing health care costs, more people entering the system, a rise in chronic diseases, and a rapidly aging population, ASU is dedicated to changing the paradigm and directing the focus toward promoting healthy behaviors, as well as delivering health care in novel ways.

Health and Well-Being

Health care is changing in many positive ways and ASU strives to be at the forefront. By embedding health promotion and disease prevention into health care, the university directly benefits the health and wellbeing of the community. Ongoing research is in areas such as lifestyle and behavior change, diabetes prevention, cardiovascular disease, adult and childhood obesity, healthy workplace environments, and nutrition and exercise science.

Conquering Disease

ASU's world-class research faculty, centers and institutes bring together thought-leaders in science, humanities, social sciences, health and engineering to spearhead new approaches to target and treat cancers, understand the spread, evolution and emergence of infectious disease, personalize medicine, and devise strategic interventions for obesity, Alzheimers and mental health challenges.

Whether it is the development of diagnostics or wearable technologies to rapidly detect cancer, or a novel vaccine delivery for Ebola, ASU is striving to advance knowledge and leverage a transdisciplinary approach to health into 21st century solutions for diverse local and global communities.

Informatics and Technology

Health research in the areas of informatics and technology at ASU ranges from investigating ways to harness Big Data, to understanding the causes of Alzheimer’s disease and improving methods for predicting epileptic seizures.

Neuroscience

The brain – and how it is used it to live life to the fullest– is at the center of ASU’s knowledge enterprise. ASU spearheads interdisciplinary work in neuroscience, psychology and the behavioral sciences.

Global Health

Arizona State University is committed to finding new solutions by recognizing that major health challenges stem from many factors beyond disease itself – factors that are ecological, cultural, institutional, historical, evolutionary, social and technological. Effective, sustainable solutions to our most pressing global health challenges will need to take all of these factors into account, as well as the complex ways in which they interrelate.

Policy, Law and Bioethics

Laws and related policies play a pivotal role in public health prevention efforts. Well-known examples — like vaccinations, tobacco control and food safety — reflect how laws can be used to mitigate disease and injury.

About

Culture of Health

Health at Arizona State University

Transdisciplinary and life-changing work is taking place across ASU's many health related programs, departments, centers and institutes.

Health Delivery

Americans spend 2.5 times more on health care than most developed countries, yet rank 37th in the world for health according to the World Health Organization. Facing challenges such as skyrocketing health care costs, more people entering the system, a rise in chronic diseases, and a rapidly aging population, ASU is dedicated to changing the paradigm and directing the focus toward promoting healthy behaviors, as well as delivering health care in novel ways.

Workforce concerns -- the way that tomorrow’s physicians and health care professionals are educated -- are paramount to the vision of restructuring health care. Training begins with new curriculum models such as those developed for the School for the Science of Health Care Delivery in the College of Health Solutions (in partnership with Mayo Clinic School of Medicine Arizona Campus). Students are learning under a new paradigm that emphasizes cost-effective, patient-centered care. The school is concentrating efforts to prepare young doctors to be better prepared to meet the demands of the nation’s changing health care system.

Ranked in the top four percent of nursing schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report, the College of Nursing and Health Innovation is distinguished as a model for excellence and inspiration in nursing and interprofessional practice, education, and research to advance knowledge and innovative practice models. The college is dedicated to discovering new solutions to optimize the health and well-being of our diverse local, national and global communities.

ASU has many research centers, institutes, clinics, and alliances that deliver hands-on care and health solutions:

The ASU Healthcare Transformation Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating health value by improving health outcomes, access to health services and the way patient care is delivered.

The Office of Clinical Partnerships is a collaborative framework for researchers, hospital and heath care organizations and the community to work on use-inspired biomedical research and provide real-world training for students.

The School of Nutrition and Health Promotion is committed to engagement in and application of research designed to promote health and well-being and reduce risk of chronic disease across the lifespan and throughout society

The Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center produces and disseminates research to reduce, eliminate or prevent health disparities in partnership with Southwestern communities and international collaborators.